During the Obama administration, global warming alarmists have infiltrated the NOAA and began altering the records to lend a false legitimacy to global warming. I was hardly the only who noticed that the NOAA had been exaggerating climate trends especially after recent changes of seasons.
So when you see any alarmist story from NOAA, you should be skeptical because NOAA has lied to us before.
I fell victim to a dating scam through a Facebook friend request. It is too easy to pull this off on FB.
The scam artists got my name on a list and I was still getting friend requests from complete female strangers with all the hallmarks of a dating scam (no mutual friends, too few friends, account opened too recent, no mutual interests, location too far away, etc)
Since then I have changed my account settings so that the only friend requests I can receive are from mutual friends, and only my friends can view my timeline. That effectively stopped the scam artists.
I have zero interest in using FB as a dating service after that experience.
Maybe this addendum to the patent office operation is a bad idea, but that's a different issue. Write to your Congressman.
The path to Congress has already been tread upon over this issue.
Congress debated the issue.
Congress passed the legislation creating the review board and authorizing the Patent Office to administer the board.
The POTUS signed the bill into law.
With the legislative, executive, and judicial branch pathways already exhausted, the options are pretty much nothing.
My hatred for Flash started when marketing figured out how to exploit it for animated ads.
I hated it even more when marketing figured out they could make the Flash animated ads hover over the content I was trying to read.
Then we got bombarded with them as more and more websites adopted Flash to deliver ads.
The web browsing experience became so awful that I removed the Flash app from my browser.
I really REALLY hated it when a website was Flash only and would nag me to install Flash. When I saw that, I fired off an email to the webmaster telling them I refused to install Flash and demanded a non-Flash entry point, or I was not coming back.
I was hardly alone in my hatred of Flash, and am not shedding tears over Flash being abandoned.
But robocalling can still be fixed from the user end. I've got an Obihai Obi110 on my home phone configured as a call screener
That works for land phones but not cell phones. Robocallers are spoofing the exchange numbers for cell phones now and there's no adapter solution to combat this.
The only solution is to fix the callerID system so spoofing is no longer possible, and Adrian is conveniently neglecting to mention this.
If you're on OSX, Safari has multiple ways to disable video autoplay. There is the easy way, or the bullet proof method which also stops autoplay from social media like Facebook. Never needed a blocker app.
When I signed up on FB five years ago, I provided my name and almost nothing else. Being well aware that they (ab)use your data to push marketing, I refused to provide them my home town, my employer, my vocation, educational institutions - NOTHING.
For a while they would nag me to complete my profile and I ignored them. I finally gave them false information, listing vocation as Expert Crash Test Dummy and employer as I Work At An Office. Even filled pronunciation of my last name as throat warbler mangrove (see monty python). I tried to fill in city where I live as under a bridge at a 13th century medieval castle, but the system wouldn't take it. I am careful never to mention my real info in anything I post.
Once in a while they would guess, correlating data from my FB friends. They got close with my high school but I would neither confirm or deny it.
They tried to trick me with a newsfeed post suggesting that I use their system to contact my representative but I was wise as that tactic would reveal my location (nice try). I see proof that they know nothing more when I see posts alerting me to weather in a city hundreds of miles from me, and "suggested posts" of groups/products that I have absolutely no interest in.
I don't have to give them ANY data, and they can't do jack shit about it. And I like it that way.
I don't know how WW3 will be fought, but video war X will be fought with a vintage analog video recorder aimed at a monitor
Good luck, because HDMI has replaced VGA ports on every computer and any VGA converter reduces the display resolution. That's by design to prevent piracy - recording a low resolution VGA display with a video recorder results in grainy video.
I really despise aggressive marketing. If Telenav is betting that carowners wouldn't object, they are very very wrong. I eliminated cable TV and broadcast radio since 2000 because the advertising was getting more and more intrusive. I stopped purchasing fuel at gas stations where the screens on the pumps are blasting advertisements at loud volume. I stopped visiting websites with highly intrusive ads. The last thing I want in my car is a damn billboard on my dashboard.
The first thing I look for is the source - once I saw "CNN" I read no further. CNN is no longer a source of integrity, has never been since 2000 when I cut cable TV out of my life.
Key phrase is "trademark". The cat's likeness was trademarked by the owner and cannot be used for commercial purposes without their permission.
It is hardly a new concept, as many estates of famous people also trademark the likeness of them. Einstein's family still owns his likeness which cannot be used for commercial purposes without their permission.
Someone needs to explain why a business refusing services on grounds of conscientious objection is "discrimination" while refusing service because of a posted sign "no shirt no shoes no service" or "formal attire required" is not.
Not to mention that BitTorrent is free of distribution license BS. If I want to watch a Warner Bros movie on an on-demand service that doesn't have a distribution deal with Warner Bros but it's on BitTorrent then "free" doesn't give me much value.
It had a personalized recommendation engine that surfaced popular programming based on what those customers were already watching illegally through BitTorrent logs
I would welcome that as much as Clippy. I don't need some damn AI pestering me with suggested programming "It looks like you just finished watching Deep Throat, would you like to view reruns of The Rosie O'Donnell Show?"
I shouldn't post this early in the morning. The Supreme Court struck down the shrinkwrap license [freibrun.com] in the case that made it in front of them. And they were right to do so.
Hate to be devil's advocate but you misread the article. The SCOTUS did not rule on shrinkwrap licenses, it was a lower court decision which is still going through the appeals process. The lower court relied on the SCOTUS decision that ruled that established facts such as telephone numbers are not entitled to copyright protection, and shrink wrap licenses were not addressed in that case.
An animated video with no basis in reality does not constitute scientific evidence. Especially from CNN which has demonstrated a long history of deceiving the public.
Facebook's entire business model is to sell targeted advertising. That requires huge amounts of data to be collected on its users. Asking Facebook to "regulate" itself by limiting the information it collects is akin to asking it to limit how much profit they make. It ain't going to happen.
Neither Facebook or the regulators can be counted on to do it, so I elected to take matters in my own hands. Since Facebook's profit model depends on targeted advertising using data collected from its users, I refused to provide that data to FB.
There is very little in my personal profile that would be useful marketing data - I do not list my hometown, location, schools/colleges I attended, occupation, employer. FB has nagged me about completing my profile but I refused. In fact I go out of my way to mess with FB; my occupation is listed as "professional crash test dummy", employer as "I work at an office", last name pronounced "throat warbler mangrove". I tried to list my location as "under a bridge at a medieval castle" but FB wouldn't take it.
I'm well aware that FB collects interests from my groups, clicks to websites outside of FB (IE ebay), the contents of what I post. I have zero interest in the usual cultural interests such as entertainment (TV/Movie/theater), sports, celebrities, personalities, et al. My interests are pretty narrow and eclectic which don't really fall under anything mass marketable. I refuse to install the FB app on my mobile device, because I don't want my mobile broadcasting to FB (and the world) my location or the restaurant I just stepped into.
There's the usual security precautions - no announcement of vacation or business trips until I return, no pictures showing the license plates on my vehicles, no pictures of my dwelling, no pictures of my kids. I'm well aware that criminals use FB to pick "targets". I don't even discuss my aging parents because I don't want word to get around that their house is vacant (the valuables have already be removed and secured, sorry thieves!). Literally days after word got around that Mom was living alone at home, the "home repair" scam artists had zeroed in on her.
Does it work? On occasion FB happily tells me that the weather forecast in is sunny and warm and I live nowhere near there. I get the occasional string of ads in my feed disguised as "suggested posts" and none of them fit my interests whatsoever. Trending? Nothing there either. FB does not know where I live, does not know what my interests are, is incapable of targeting me with ads that interest me - and I like it that way.
Does anyone know of an app which generates the "number has been disconnected [youtube.com]" tones in response to an incoming phone call?
Google "ic sit tone" and go to the Wikipedia hit. Download the wav file, put it in your mobile device, record your new greeting, play the wav file over speaker, speak your greeting. Spam calls have drastically dropped off.
I'm reluctant to change my voicemail to that because I do occasionally get real voicemails.
Nah, my friends and others still leave messages once they hear my voice in the greeting. Just don't play the SIT tone too loud like the phone company does.
Another libtard is about to realise the world isn't like their faggy echo-chamber they create for themselves.
Ah, so we have a reason for your rush to authoritative, punitive judgment: partisan politics.
No, the libtard is being called out for their vindictive elitist disposition which has divided this country for too long. Both sides are guilty of it. We are sick and tired of these tactics, and that includes your tired and lame "partisan politics" which is to imply "it is everyone else's fault and they are never to blame" which is not helping to unite this country.
AIM was a staple of personal computers since first launching in 1997
And in 1998 corporate IT departments were busy trying to eradicate AOL from office computers because the AOL installation process replaced many Windows drivers with their own AOL-eccentric drivers. To IT departments, AOL was more like malware in that it took over the computer, thus AOL was banned from most workplaces.
When Time-Warner and AOL merged back in 2000, one of the conditions forced on the merger by the FTC was that AOL had to make AIM compatible with other IM systems. Remember at the time of the merger, the majority of internet users (esp AOL) were still on dial up and TW cable was one of the few providers with an intact network poised to bring high speed internet to the masses. FTC officials feared that the merger of the world's largest internet company and the world's largest cable provider would put too much power in the hands of a single company. TW/AOL never did make a good faith effort to open AIM to IM rivals which was one reason they never made the transition to mobile - they resisted the urge to let AOL members to breach the "walled garden" of AOL, because advertising revenue inside that garden was their dominant monetizing strategy.
Another condition that the FTC imposed was that TW had to open their network to competitors like EarthLink before AOL could be made available on their cable pipelines. TW/AOL never made that compromise, so AOL was stuck in dial-up.
I was never fond of AOL because of their over-aggressive marketing, but I was never short on drink coasters from their CD-ROMs. They always arrived free in the mail and you could readily find them at the post office.
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During the Obama administration, global warming alarmists have infiltrated the NOAA and began altering the records to lend a false legitimacy to global warming. I was hardly the only who noticed that the NOAA had been exaggerating climate trends especially after recent changes of seasons.
So when you see any alarmist story from NOAA, you should be skeptical because NOAA has lied to us before.
I fell victim to a dating scam through a Facebook friend request. It is too easy to pull this off on FB.
The scam artists got my name on a list and I was still getting friend requests from complete female strangers with all the hallmarks of a dating scam (no mutual friends, too few friends, account opened too recent, no mutual interests, location too far away, etc)
Since then I have changed my account settings so that the only friend requests I can receive are from mutual friends, and only my friends can view my timeline. That effectively stopped the scam artists.
I have zero interest in using FB as a dating service after that experience.
The path to Congress has already been tread upon over this issue.
Congress debated the issue.
Congress passed the legislation creating the review board and authorizing the Patent Office to administer the board.
The POTUS signed the bill into law.
With the legislative, executive, and judicial branch pathways already exhausted, the options are pretty much nothing.
My hatred for Flash started when marketing figured out how to exploit it for animated ads.
I hated it even more when marketing figured out they could make the Flash animated ads hover over the content I was trying to read.
Then we got bombarded with them as more and more websites adopted Flash to deliver ads.
The web browsing experience became so awful that I removed the Flash app from my browser.
I really REALLY hated it when a website was Flash only and would nag me to install Flash. When I saw that, I fired off an email to the webmaster telling them I refused to install Flash and demanded a non-Flash entry point, or I was not coming back.
I was hardly alone in my hatred of Flash, and am not shedding tears over Flash being abandoned.
That works for land phones but not cell phones. Robocallers are spoofing the exchange numbers for cell phones now and there's no adapter solution to combat this.
The only solution is to fix the callerID system so spoofing is no longer possible, and Adrian is conveniently neglecting to mention this.
If you're on OSX, Safari has multiple ways to disable video autoplay. There is the easy way, or the bullet proof method which also stops autoplay from social media like Facebook. Never needed a blocker app.
The same Washington Post that published a questionable sexual abuse claim against a political candidate, among other claims that turned out to be unreliable?
When I signed up on FB five years ago, I provided my name and almost nothing else. Being well aware that they (ab)use your data to push marketing, I refused to provide them my home town, my employer, my vocation, educational institutions - NOTHING.
For a while they would nag me to complete my profile and I ignored them. I finally gave them false information, listing vocation as Expert Crash Test Dummy and employer as I Work At An Office. Even filled pronunciation of my last name as throat warbler mangrove (see monty python). I tried to fill in city where I live as under a bridge at a 13th century medieval castle, but the system wouldn't take it. I am careful never to mention my real info in anything I post.
Once in a while they would guess, correlating data from my FB friends. They got close with my high school but I would neither confirm or deny it.
They tried to trick me with a newsfeed post suggesting that I use their system to contact my representative but I was wise as that tactic would reveal my location (nice try). I see proof that they know nothing more when I see posts alerting me to weather in a city hundreds of miles from me, and "suggested posts" of groups/products that I have absolutely no interest in.
I don't have to give them ANY data, and they can't do jack shit about it. And I like it that way.
Good luck, because HDMI has replaced VGA ports on every computer and any VGA converter reduces the display resolution. That's by design to prevent piracy - recording a low resolution VGA display with a video recorder results in grainy video.
I really despise aggressive marketing. If Telenav is betting that carowners wouldn't object, they are very very wrong. I eliminated cable TV and broadcast radio since 2000 because the advertising was getting more and more intrusive. I stopped purchasing fuel at gas stations where the screens on the pumps are blasting advertisements at loud volume. I stopped visiting websites with highly intrusive ads. The last thing I want in my car is a damn billboard on my dashboard.
Facebook's nagging reminds me of the insane girlfriend
The first thing I look for is the source - once I saw "CNN" I read no further. CNN is no longer a source of integrity, has never been since 2000 when I cut cable TV out of my life.
Key phrase is "trademark". The cat's likeness was trademarked by the owner and cannot be used for commercial purposes without their permission.
It is hardly a new concept, as many estates of famous people also trademark the likeness of them. Einstein's family still owns his likeness which cannot be used for commercial purposes without their permission.
Someone needs to explain why a business refusing services on grounds of conscientious objection is "discrimination" while refusing service because of a posted sign "no shirt no shoes no service" or "formal attire required" is not.
Not to mention that BitTorrent is free of distribution license BS. If I want to watch a Warner Bros movie on an on-demand service that doesn't have a distribution deal with Warner Bros but it's on BitTorrent then "free" doesn't give me much value.
I would welcome that as much as Clippy. I don't need some damn AI pestering me with suggested programming "It looks like you just finished watching Deep Throat, would you like to view reruns of The Rosie O'Donnell Show?"
Hate to be devil's advocate but you misread the article. The SCOTUS did not rule on shrinkwrap licenses, it was a lower court decision which is still going through the appeals process. The lower court relied on the SCOTUS decision that ruled that established facts such as telephone numbers are not entitled to copyright protection, and shrink wrap licenses were not addressed in that case.
The bill would impose a five year prison sentence on "organizations". Just how do Democrats expect to incarcerate a corporation?
An animated video with no basis in reality does not constitute scientific evidence. Especially from CNN which has demonstrated a long history of deceiving the public.
Neither Facebook or the regulators can be counted on to do it, so I elected to take matters in my own hands. Since Facebook's profit model depends on targeted advertising using data collected from its users, I refused to provide that data to FB.
There is very little in my personal profile that would be useful marketing data - I do not list my hometown, location, schools/colleges I attended, occupation, employer. FB has nagged me about completing my profile but I refused. In fact I go out of my way to mess with FB; my occupation is listed as "professional crash test dummy", employer as "I work at an office", last name pronounced "throat warbler mangrove". I tried to list my location as "under a bridge at a medieval castle" but FB wouldn't take it.
I'm well aware that FB collects interests from my groups, clicks to websites outside of FB (IE ebay), the contents of what I post. I have zero interest in the usual cultural interests such as entertainment (TV/Movie/theater), sports, celebrities, personalities, et al. My interests are pretty narrow and eclectic which don't really fall under anything mass marketable. I refuse to install the FB app on my mobile device, because I don't want my mobile broadcasting to FB (and the world) my location or the restaurant I just stepped into.
There's the usual security precautions - no announcement of vacation or business trips until I return, no pictures showing the license plates on my vehicles, no pictures of my dwelling, no pictures of my kids. I'm well aware that criminals use FB to pick "targets". I don't even discuss my aging parents because I don't want word to get around that their house is vacant (the valuables have already be removed and secured, sorry thieves!). Literally days after word got around that Mom was living alone at home, the "home repair" scam artists had zeroed in on her.
Does it work? On occasion FB happily tells me that the weather forecast in is sunny and warm and I live nowhere near there. I get the occasional string of ads in my feed disguised as "suggested posts" and none of them fit my interests whatsoever. Trending? Nothing there either. FB does not know where I live, does not know what my interests are, is incapable of targeting me with ads that interest me - and I like it that way.
Google "ic sit tone" and go to the Wikipedia hit. Download the wav file, put it in your mobile device, record your new greeting, play the wav file over speaker, speak your greeting. Spam calls have drastically dropped off.
Nah, my friends and others still leave messages once they hear my voice in the greeting. Just don't play the SIT tone too loud like the phone company does.
"It looks like you ingested another Viagra and your location is not at home. Would you like help to initiate divorce proceedings?"
No, the libtard is being called out for their vindictive elitist disposition which has divided this country for too long. Both sides are guilty of it. We are sick and tired of these tactics, and that includes your tired and lame "partisan politics" which is to imply "it is everyone else's fault and they are never to blame" which is not helping to unite this country.
And in 1998 corporate IT departments were busy trying to eradicate AOL from office computers because the AOL installation process replaced many Windows drivers with their own AOL-eccentric drivers. To IT departments, AOL was more like malware in that it took over the computer, thus AOL was banned from most workplaces.
When Time-Warner and AOL merged back in 2000, one of the conditions forced on the merger by the FTC was that AOL had to make AIM compatible with other IM systems. Remember at the time of the merger, the majority of internet users (esp AOL) were still on dial up and TW cable was one of the few providers with an intact network poised to bring high speed internet to the masses. FTC officials feared that the merger of the world's largest internet company and the world's largest cable provider would put too much power in the hands of a single company. TW/AOL never did make a good faith effort to open AIM to IM rivals which was one reason they never made the transition to mobile - they resisted the urge to let AOL members to breach the "walled garden" of AOL, because advertising revenue inside that garden was their dominant monetizing strategy.
Another condition that the FTC imposed was that TW had to open their network to competitors like EarthLink before AOL could be made available on their cable pipelines. TW/AOL never made that compromise, so AOL was stuck in dial-up.
I was never fond of AOL because of their over-aggressive marketing, but I was never short on drink coasters from their CD-ROMs. They always arrived free in the mail and you could readily find them at the post office.
So the EU sues Ireland and the EU prevails - then what? Companies get shut down for evading taxes. You don't exactly shut down a country.